The seven books by New York Times Notable Book AuthorLisa Mason are now offered as newly reissued beautiful trade paperbacks and distributed by Barnes and Noble, as well as on Amazon! All are also ebooks available on retailers worldwide, along with Mason’s other titles that are ebooks only.
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As you can see below, I’ve got lots of stories and novellas, a screenplay and a miniseries, Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery), online as ebooks. Check it out! Celestial Girl will be a trade paperback as soon as we figure out the logistics. And a second story collection, Oddities, is forthcoming.

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On May 27, 2018—one week ago today—the heartbreaking news was that Gardner Dozois had died suddenly in a hospital of an infection at the age of seventy.

As most people in the science fiction and fantasy business know, Dozois was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for many years, the editor of the indispensable Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies for an astounding thirty-seven years, and a published writer himself, most recently with stories in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the January-February 2018 issue with “Neanderthals“ (my story in that issue was “Aurelia”) and the May-June 2018 issue with “Unstoppable” (my story in that issue was “The Bicycle Whisperer”). His wife, the writer Susan Casper, had died after long and painful illnesses a year ago.

At the beginning of my writing career, Dozois acquired four stories of mine for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, enabling me to build a publishing resume that served as a platform for me to sell my first novel, Arachne, to William Morrow in hardcover, in trade paperback by Eos, in mass market paperback by AvoNova, and in another trade paperback edition by Bast Books. Nine novels have followed, a short story collection, several screenplays, and a major movie deal based on the short story, “Tomorrow’s Child”, published in Omni Magazine.

I’m eternally grateful for Gardner for giving me a chance back in the day. Although Asimov’s, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Analog are small-format magazines, don’t pay much, and have limited distribution, the competition among writers—even established writers with many novels to their names—to be published in those forums is fierce.

I met Gardner only briefly three times, after I’d sold stories to him—once at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Author-Editor Reception in New York; a second time at the WorldCon in San Francisco; and a third at the WorldCon in Los Angeles. He was gracious and friendly on all three occasions. Countless other writers and editors deemed him a dear friend and a regular at Science Fiction World Conventions (“WorldCons”) and other venues. A lively fixture who will be greatly missed.

And so. The first story I sold to Gardner was “Guardian,” about an African-American gallerist who must fight a brutal burglar preying on her condo building with voodoo. The next was “The Oniomancer,” about a punk Chinese-American bicycle messenger who finds an alien artifact on the street.

Finally, Gardner bought “Hummers,” about a woman dying of cancer who learns to reconcile herself to her impending death through Egyptian magic and the hummingbirds who visit her feeder. I remember walking up to Gardner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where he sat in the lobby at a table with a bunch of editors and thanking him for buying “Hummers.” And he said, loud enough for everyone to hear, “That was a good story.” “Hummers” was nominated for the Nebula Award (the late Roger Zelazny voted for it) and chosen for the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5th Annual Collection (St. Martin’s Press). The award-winning Terri Windling, one of the editors of the anthology, wrote a beautiful introduction. I’ve also published this as an ebook short story at Hummers (in Fifth Annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror) on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords. Also on Kindle in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, and India.

So there you have it, my friends. Short stories are a part of the culture, a part of literature, an important way for writers to express themselves and for readers to appreciate their work and their consciousness.

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We’re so excited! The seven books by New York Times Notable Book Author Lisa Mason we are offering as newly reissued beautiful trade paperbacks are now distributed by Barnes and Noble, as well as on Amazon! All are also ebooks available on retailers worldwide, along with Mason’s other titles that are ebooks only.Shop the Internet from the comfort of your home or office or the convenience of wherever you are with your mobile device!
Please click on the title to view the book cover, a book description, and more reviews.

As you can see below, I’ve got lots of stories and novellas, a screenplay and a miniseries, Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery), online as ebooks. Check it out! Celestial Girl will be a trade paperback as soon as we figure out the logistics.

If you would like to receive Lisa Mason’s quarterly newsletter, New Book News, please respond by email to lisasmason@aol.com, enter “Add Me” on the subject line, and it shall be done. You may unsubscribe at any time.

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We are offering seven books by New York Times Notable Book Author Lisa Mason newly reissued as beautiful trade paperbacks for the year-round book-buying season. All are also ebooks available on retailers worldwide.
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Please click on the title to view the book cover, a book description, and more reviews.

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My contributor’s two copies came in the mail on Wednesday. I spent yesterday looking over the magazine, reading several stories. The magazine will be on the newsstands as of May 1, but you subscribers may already be receiving your copy.

After Lisa Mason encountered a homeless teenager begging for money in the parking lot of her Piedmont grocery store, a character stepped out of her imagination and demanded that Mason write about her. The Lone Rangerette, her sentient bicycle, and her mobile AI may get her own YA novel in the future. Mason’s five-star novella, One Day in the Life of Alexa, was published in 2017 by Bast Books in print and an ebook. Visit her at www.lisamason.com for all her books, ebooks, stories, screenplays, interviews, blogs, cute cat pictures, and bespoke art and jewelry by her acclaimed artist husband, Tom Robinson.

My cover artist and I were so happy with the way these new covers came out that we’ve already planned the color scheme for the cover of the third book in the Arachne trilogy. Actually, he said to me, “While we’re hot on this project, let’s just do the third book cover. You’ve got the title, we’ve got the colors, let’s go!”

I said, “There’s just one small problem. Two small problems. I haven’t written the book yet so I don’t have a page count. (You must have an exact page count to the measure the spine in millimeters of an inch.) And I haven’t written the book yet so I don’t have a book description for the back cover.”

He said (and I quote), “So just make something up!”

The final book in what is turning out to be a trilogy is SPYDER. Yes, I have notes and an outline. No, I haven’t started the book yet. I keep saying “yet.” Because I’m working on new stories and books to sell. So we shall see.

The first covers, done by William Morrow Publishing for the hardcovers, were kind of fun but essentially atrocious. I’m not even sure I want to scan them to show you. You can find them on Amazon. Basically, both book covers featured a scantily woman with a bare cleavage grappling with a robot. (My editor at the time was a man.)

Both Arachne and Cyberweb feature a heroine with a brain and a backbone. Both books are a serious analysis of Jungian philosophy of the human mind and the unconscious melded with what is still, to this day, cutting-edge theory of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. There is my trade-marked humor to keep some moments light. And there is bad sex. But still, the books aren’t about cleavage. Maybe the covers were more about New York publishing’s perception of women’s science fiction.

Fans noticed the discrepancy between my serious themes and the raunchy covers. See Goodreads for the various reader reviews.

The new Bast Book covers capture, I think, the brutal urban setting of the books, the soulessness of heroine Carly Quester’s first endeavors there, and her harrowing conflicts with hostile AI entities that ensue. (This is a photo we’ve got of the foot of Market Street in downtown San Francisco.) The matched set, and the third book to come, remind us of the Black Lizard Press reprints of Raymond Chandler’s novels, the same size and also with evocative, nonrepresentational covers.

I prefer book covers that don’t feature an artist’s attempt to depict the characters. Romance books and some fantasy books usually depict human faces on the cover. For mainstream books and especially for books that are serious, though, the covers are often nonrepresentational and symbolic. Even the covers of the Twilight books, before the movies gave actors’ faces to the characters, were symbolic. And effective.

So there you have, my friends. Click on the title for reviews and more.